Webmasters scored another victory in the court system recently when a Vermont judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman upset by comments made about her by a third party commentator.Superior Court Judge David Howard upheld provisions set forth under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, enacted by the US Congress in 1996, which protects providers of interactive computer services from liability for content posted by third parties.
Keller of NYT on Citizen Journalism
Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, gave a long and passionate speech in London last week at a memorial event hosted by The Guardian — the full text of which is here — and in it he said many valuable and wise things about the practice of journalism (although he kind of glossed over stuff like Jayson Blair and Judith Miller, but whatever).
Citizen Journalists Report On Myanmar
While the Myanmar’s regime attempts to suppress the protests taking place, citizen journalists are playing a key role in delivery of the news to the rest of the world.
Topix Gets Local with Citizen Journalism
Topix, the local news aggregator that is owned by several big U.S. newspaper chains (Gannett, The Tribune and McClatchy), is doing what amounts to a relaunch of the site and adding “citizen journalism” or social media to the mix, as well as moving to a dot-com domain (it used to be dot-net). Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta — who describes on his personal blog how this came out of an attempt to “de-suckify” the site — has a blog post at Topix about the changes, and says:
A Citizen Media Venture
Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post is working on a “citizen media” venture with NewAssignment.net (which I wrote about in an earlier post), has an interesting perspective on the future of newspapers in a recent post.
Traditional vs. Citizen Media – Social Darwinism
I’m sure there are many out there who ask or are asked this question, and many have not yet found a consistent answer.
Center For Citizen Media To Form
Dan Gillmor plans to establish a non-profit center to support grassroots citizen journalism in 2006, and will be affiliated with UC Berkeley and Harvard University.
Misplaced Worries On Citizen Journalism
An InfoWorld writer blogged about the potential problems that could arise from the growth in “citizen journalism,” but the real problems come from elsewhere.
New iPod Cellphone Will Expand Citizen Marketing
iPod says “Hello Moto.” At least, The New York Times is cautiously suggesting it will ….
Yahoo Bets on Citizen Journalism
Over the past few months Yahoo has been recruiting a slew of veteran online journalists.